Cross laminated timbers are being used in mass quantities for the tallest wood building so far: a 121-unit, 10-story apartment complex in London. Architects Waugh Thistleton, CLT engineers Ramboll and developer Regal Homes, says the most exciting aspect of the project is the sheer size of the structure and its completion without the use of thousands of cubic meters of concrete.
To be covered with a brick facade, the project has seen more than 3,500 m3 of timber arriving at the construction site as work gets underway on a record-breaking cross-laminated timber (CLT) residential structure, which will become the tallest of its kind in the world.
The project residential capacity of 121 units will be 12,500 sqm (about 125,000 square feet), with over 3,460 sqm of commercial space.
Ramboll’s CLT experts have calculated that the building will save 2,400 tons of carbon, compared to an equivalent block with a concrete frame. By using CLT construction, the embodied carbon is 2.5 times less than that of an equivalent concrete frame. Taking into account that timber stores carbon by absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, which is also known as ‘sequestered carbon,’ the structure can definitively be considered as ‘carbon negative’.
From Woodworking Network: http://www.woodworkingnetwork.com/wood/panel-supply/worlds-tallest-timber-building-now-under-construction-rise-10-stories?ss=news,news,woodworking_industry_news,news,almanac_market_data,news